[Pilsner]

While a third year law student I interviewed with Judge Jones to clerk. She met with me with and also had me meet with her staff. One of her then current clerks asked about my semester in Washington DC, and I related a story about the time I was sitting in the little subway that runs between the Senate office buildings and the Capitol when, just as the train was leaving, who should waddle down the stairs but Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd. I was sitting in the last coach with several young ladies in my class and their was only one empty seat. The rules say that members have priority, so I stood up to let Ted and Chris sit down, missing the train and the meeting scheduled a few minutes later on the Hill.

As I was leaving her chambers one of her clerks who had heard this story made some snide remark about my having given up my seat to my hero Ted Kennedy.

I didn't correct him, and I didn't get the job. I've always wondered if my failure to point out to this clown that the point of my story was that I didn't want to give my seat to to Ted Kennedy or Chris Dodd, but that I did so as a courtesy to the young ladies I was with so that one of them didn't have to give up her seat, cost me a chance to clerk with a Fifth Circut Justice. If she gets throught I will have to wonder if it cost me a chance to work for a future Supreme Court Justice.

[jwalsh07]

Wow, quite a story. Thanks for sharing it.

What's the moral? :-}

[bnelson44]

"I didn't correct him, and I didn't get the job. I've always wondered if my failure to point out to this clown that the point of my story was that I didn't want to give my seat to to Ted Kennedy or Chris Dodd, but that I did so as a courtesy to the young ladies I was with so that one of them didn't have to give up her seat"

Which was the correct thing to do. You should never regret it. If her clerk is that shallow, you didn't miss much of a job.